No More Lonely Friends with Marissa Meizz

Team Simon here! While A Bit of Optimism is on a short break, we’re revisiting a few episodes you helped make some of our favorites. We’ll be back with brand-new conversations next week, on March 24th, 2026. In the meantime, we’re bringing back an episode that explores a word mos ...  Show more

Hello from Team Simon! We’re taking a short hiatus, but A Bit of Optimism will return with brand-new episodes March 24th. In the meantime, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes. Episodes that many of you who listened, shared them, and told us what resonated. This week, w ...  Show more

The truth about big friend groups and why I think the best people have less friends. In today's episode, I talk about the misconception that people with little to no friends are bad and don't know how to maintain healthy friendships. I strongly believe a big reason why people str ...  Show more

(Video podcast available on Spotify & YouTube) Welcome back to Pretty Lonesome! While Madeline is away this week, she has hand selected one of her favorites from the archives to keep you company (don’t worry she’ll be back next week!). This week, Madeline discusses how to recogni ...  Show more

How to spot FAKE FRIENDS...This video covers the 9 types of toxic friends, how bad friendships affect your life, how to deal with this, how to cut them off, cope with the loneliness and heal from the aftermath of a friendship breakup.WANT LIKE MINDED FRIENDS? https://discord.gg/q ...  Show more

Kenzie Elizabeth sits down with Erin Falconer, author of How to Break Up with Your Friends, to talk all things adult friendship. They're covering how to make new friends as an adult, how early friendships affect our friendships later on, setting boundaries & finding meanin ...